Commonalities Between Music and Language- Dr Gayathri S , Educationist and Musician
COMMONALITIES BETWEEN MUSIC AND LANGUAGE Music is an art form, whose medium is sound. It is a system of beautiful sounds in orderly fashion. It is the combination of tune, rhythm, emotions and feelings expressed through vocal sounds. Language is the systematic and conventional use of ‘sounds’ for the purpose of communication or self-expression (Crystal, 1995). There are commonalities between music and language which are shown in the diagram given below. Both music and language have specific structures and governed by rules. Music is the combination and permutation of various notes result in different tunes, ragas and rhythm. Whereas speech is the result of various vowel and consonant sounds arranged in specific way. The sounds form words and words form sentences. Sound is the medium for both music as well as speech. Nada and Shabda are the synonyms of the word sound in music. “Sounds are systematically organized...